Nacho Libre

This sophomore outing from Napoleon Dynamite director Hess is full of cheesy goodness, but it's Velveeta, compadre, and it slides around and around and finally right through you like a greased luchador. As a comedy, it's hit and miss; it works better and feels most fully developed when Hess has the corpulent Black tug on your heartstrings. Plotwise, this is straight out of the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland "Let's Put on a Show and Save the Orphanage" playbook. Hess uses his Mexican locations to great effect, and the teaming of Black and Jiménez is inspired, but rarely does Nacho Libre have you rolling in the aisles – it's content to keep you chuckling along and basking in Black's ability to skillfully manipulate his eyebrows. It's a strange hybrid, Nacho Libre, part genuine homage to the culturally unique world of Mexican wrestling and part barrage of feel-good, cornball antics.